TEDAM publications

Curtale, R., Stut, M., Alessandrini, A., Deuster, C., Batista, E., Silva, F., Natale, F., and Dijkstra, L. (2025). Outlook and demographic perspectives for EU’s rural regions. A modelling-based exercise. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 01/2025, JRC140514.

Casas, P., Christou, T., García Rodríguez, A., Lazarou, N., and Salotti, S. (2025). The ex-post macroeconomic evaluation of the 2014-2020 European Social Fund, Youth Employment Initiative and REACT-EU labour market interventions. MPRA working paper no. 123410.

De Quinto Notario, A. (2024). An ex-post evaluation of the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived 2014-2020. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 04/2024, JRC138808.

Casas, P., Christou, T., García Rodríguez, A., Heidelk, T., Lazarou, N., Monfort, P., and Salotti, S. (2024). The updated RHOMOLO impact assessment of the 2014-2020 European cohesion policy (including REACT-EU). MPRA working paper no. 122873.

Kostarakos, I., and Marques Santos, A. (2024). Territorial Economic Data viewer: An introduction to the industrial module. MPRA working paper no. 122885.

Molica, F., de Renzis, A., and Bourdin, S. (2024). Between re-nationalisation and hyper-Lisbonisation: the long goodbye to the EU cohesion policy original goals. GSSI Discussion Paper Series in Regional Science & Economic Geography No. 2024-10.

Marques Santos, A., Molica, F., and Torrecilla Salinas, C. (2024). EU-funded investment in Artificial Intelligence and regional specialization. GEE Papers no. 181 (Winner of the Portuguese GEE call "AI in Portugal"). See the updated version published on Regional Science Policy & Practice.

Foglia, F., Molica, F., and Marques Santos, A. (2024). Exploring the drivers of irregular spending in the EU cohesion policy: A fractional regression analysis. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 03/2024, JRC138827. Se thee updated version published on Regional Studies, Regional Science.

Auteri, D., Attardo, C., Berzi, M., Dorati, C., Albinola, F., Baggio, L., Bucciarelli, G., Bussolari, I., and Dijkstra, L. (2024). The Annual Regional Database of the European Commission (ARDECO) - Methodological Note. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 02/2024, JRC138212.

Christou, T., Crucitti, F., García-Rodríguez, A., Lazarou, N.J., and Salotti, S. (2024). The RHOMOLO ex-post impact assessment of the 2014-2020 European research and innovation funding programme (Horizon 2020). JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 01/2024, JRC133690.

Marques Santos, A., Conte, A., and Molica, F. (2023). Money talks, but can it run? Assessing the territorial dynamics of EU funds absorption capacity. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 14/2023, JRC136020. See the updated version published on JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies.

Santoleri, P., and Russo, E. (2023). Spurring subsidy entrepreneurs. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 13/2023, JRC135716. See the updated version published on Research Policy.

Molica, F., Marques Santos, A., and Conte, A. (2023). Can a more performance-based setting bring additional efficiency to EU cohesion policy? JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 12/2023, JRC135268. See the updated version published on Journal of Regional Research - Investigaciones Regionales.

Dijkstra, L., and Jacobs-Crisioni, C. (2023). Developing a definition of functional rural areas. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 11/2023, JRC135599.

Cappellano, F., Marques Santos, A., and Dotti, N.F. (2023). Are EU regions ready to tackle climate change? JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 10/2023, JRC135523. See the updated version published on Papers in Regional Science.

Molica, F. (2023). Converging trajectories? Reassessing EU Cohesion Policy in times of new industrial policy. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 09/2023, JRC134872. See the updated version published on JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies.

Alvarez, I., Barbero, J., Orea, L., and Rodríguez-Pose, A. (2023). How institutions shape the economic returns of public investment in European regions. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 08/2023, JRC134587.

Marques Santos, A., and Conte, A. (2023). Regional participation to research and innovation programmes under Next Generation EU: The Portuguese case. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 07/2023, JRC134274. See the updated version published on Papers in Regional Science.

Arvanitopoulos, T., and Lazarou, N.J. (2023). The determinants and dynamics of regional convergence in the EU. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 06/2023, JRC133733.

Kostarakos, I. (2023). Regional productivity growth in the EU: An assessment of recent developments. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 05/2023, JRC133434.

Marques Santos, A., Conte, A., Ojala, T., Meyer, N., Kostarakos, I., Santoleri, P., Shevtsova, Y., De Quinto Notario, A., Molica, F., and Lalanne, M. (2023). Territorial Economic Data viewer: A data integration and visualization tool. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 04/2023, JRC133404.

Marques Santos, A., and Coad, A. (2023). Suggestions for monitoring and evaluation of transformative innovation policy. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 03/2023, JRC132492. See the updated version published on Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.

Cappellano, F., Molica, F., and Makkonen, T. (2023). Missions and cohesion policy: Living separate or dancing together? JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 02/2023, JRC133366. See the updated version published on Science and Public Policy.

García Rodríguez, A., Lazarou, N., Mandras, G., Salotti, S., Thissen, M., and Kalvelagen, E. (2023). A NUTS-2 European Union interregional system of Social Accounting Matrices for the year 2017: The RHOMOLO V4 dataset. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 01/2023, JRC132883. See the updated version published on Spatial Economic Analysis.

Barbero, J., Marques Santos, A., and Rodríguez-Crespo, E. (2022). Financing green and digital transition: Assessing regional patterns. EMN working paper no. 17 (Finalist for the 15th EMN Research Award).

Christensen, M., and Persyn, D. (2022). Endogenous labour supply and negative economic shocks in a large scale spatial CGE model of the European Union. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 13/2022, JRC131057.

Crucitti, F., Lecca, P., Monfort, P., and Salotti, S. (2022). Regional equilibrium modelling with forward-looking agents: an application to the 2014-2020 European structural regional investments. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 12/2022, JRC130196.

Sanchez-Martínez, M., and Christensen, M. (2022). Medium-to-long term macroeconomic effects of the COVID crisis: an investigation with RHOMOLO. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 11/2022, JRC129120.

Prota, F., & Viesti, G. (2022). Linking the "Recovery and Resilience Plan" and Smart Specialisation. The Italian case. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 10/2022, JRC130071.

Tolias, Y. (2022). Linking the "Recovery and Resilience Plan" and Smart Specialisation. The Greek case. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 09/2022, JRC129830.

Fernández-Zubieta, A. (2022). Linking the "Recovery and Resilience Plan" and Smart Specialisation. The Spanish case. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 08/2022, JRC129828.

Marques Santos, A., Barbero, J., Salotti, S., Diukanova, O., and Pontikakis, D. (2022). On the road to regional 'Environmental Competitive Sustainability': the role of the European Structural Funds. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 07/2022, JRC129487. See the updated version published on Industry and Innovation.

Marques Santos, A., Barbero, J., Salotti, S., and Conte, A. (2022). Job creation and destruction in the digital age: What about Portugal? GEE Papers no. 163 (Winner of the Portuguese GEE call "Impacto Económico da Digitalização em Portugal"). See the updated version published on Economic Modelling.

Crucitti, F., Lazarou, N., Monfort, P., and Salotti, S. (2022). A cohesion policy analysis for Romania towards the 2021-2027 programming period. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 06/2022, JRC129049. See also the Policy Insight JRC133380 and the related article on Spatial Economic Analysis.

Gianelle, C., Guzzo, F., Barbero, J., and Salotti, S. (2022). The economic implications of Smart Specialisation governance: a general equilibrium analysis for Italy 2014-2020. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 05/2022, JRC128607. See the updated version published on The Annals of Regional Science.

Barbero, J., Christensen, M., Conte, A., Lecca, P., Rodríguez-Pose, A., and Salotti, S. (2022). Improving government quality in the regions of the EU and its system-wide benefits for Cohesion policy. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 04/2022, JRC128443. See the updated version published on the Journal of Common Market Studies.

Barbero, J., Bengyuzov, M., Christensen, M., Conte, A., Salotti, S., and Trofimov, A. (2022). A general equilibrium analysis of the economic impact of the post-2006 EU regulation in the services sector. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 03/2022, JRC128322.

Persyn, D., Barbero, J., Díaz-Lanchas, J., Lecca, P., Mandras, G., and Salotti, S. (2022). The ripple effects of large-scale transport infrastructure investments. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 02/2022, JRC128412. See the updated version published on the Journal of Regional Science.

Crucitti, F., Lazarou, N., Monfort, P., and Salotti, S. (2022). The RHOMOLO impact assessment of the 2014-2020 cohesion policy in the EU regions. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 01/2022, JRC128208 (also DG REGIO Working papers no. 4/2022). See the updated version published on Regional Studies.

Mandras, G., and Salotti, S. (2021). Indirect jobs in activities related to coal, peat and oil shale: A RHOMOLO-IO analysis on the EU regions. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 11/2021, JRC127463.

Diukanova, O., and Chioncel, M. (2021). A GDP impact evaluation of R&D investments in Romania using the CGE model RHOMOLO. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 10/2021, JRC126690.

Duernecker, G., and Sanchez-Martinez, M. (2021). Structural change and productivity growth in the European Union: Past, present and future. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 09/2021, JRC126447.

Economides, G., Philippopoulos, A., and Sakkas, S. (2021). Redistributive policies in general equilibrium. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 08/2021, JRC126365.

Shevtsova, Y., Díaz-Lanchas, J., Persyn, D., and Mandras, G. (2021). Do Cohesion Funds foster regional trade integration? A structural gravity analysis for the EU regions. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 07/2021, JRC126277. See the updated version published on Regional Studies.

Crucitti, F., Lazarou, N., Monfort, P., and Salotti, S. (2021). A scenario analysis of the 2021-2027 European Cohesion Policy in Bulgaria and its regions. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 06/2021, JRC126268. See also the Policy Insight JRC133380 and the related article on Spatial Economic Analysis.

Monfort, P., and Salotti, S. (2021). Where does the EU Cohesion policy produce its impact? Simulations with a regional dynamic general equilibrium model. DG REGIO Working papers no. 2/2021. See the updated version published on Economic Systems.

Marques Santos, A. (2021). Linking the 'Recovery and Resilience Plan' and Smart Specialisation. The Portuguese case. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 05/2021, JRC126178.

Benedetti Fasil, C., Impullitti, G., Licandro, O., and Sedláček, P. (2021). Heterogeneous firms, R&D policies and the long shadow of business cycles. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 04/2021, JRC124211.

Marques Santos, A., Haegeman, K., and Moncada-Paternò-Castello, P. (2021). The impact of Covid-19 and of the earlier crisis on firms' innovation and growth: a comparative analysis. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 03/2021, JRC125490. See also the Policy Insight JRC115544.

Barbero, J., and Salotti, S. (2021). A general equilibrium analysis of the effects of the 2014-2020 European Cohesion policy in the Portuguese regions. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 02/2021, JRC125285. See also the related article on Spatial Economic Analysis.

Monastiriotis, V., and Sakkas, S. (2021). Employment mobility and labour market flexibility. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 01/2021, JRC123924.

Zofío, J.L., Díaz-Lanchas, J., Persyn, D., and Barbero, J. (2020). Estimating foreign and national trade elasticities in the EU internal market using generalised transport costs. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 05/2020, JRC122414.

Lecca, P., Salotti, S., and Conte, A. (2020). The importance of studying inter-regional spillover effects of European policies: application of the RHOMOLO model for Poland. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 04/2020, JRC120937. See the version published as a book chapter here.

Di Pietro, F., Lecca, P., and Salotti, S. (2020). Regional economic resilience in the European Union: a numerical general equilibrium analysis. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 03/2020, JRC120508. See the updated version published on Spatial Economic Analysis.

Persyn, D. (2020). Spatial aggregation bias in wage curve and NAWRUs estimation. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 02/2020, JRC120448.

Barbero, J., Diukanova, O., Gianelle, C., Salotti, S., and Santoalha, A. (2020). Economic modelling to evaluate Smart Specialisation: An analysis on research and innovation targets in Southern Europe. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 01/2020, JRC120397. See the updated version published on Regional Studies and also the Policy Insight 125800.

Sojka, A., Díaz-Lanchas, J., and Steinberg, F. (2019). The politicization of Transatlantic trade in Europe: Explaining inconsistent preferences regarding free trade and the TTIP. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 09/2019, JRC117871.

Di Comite, F., Mandras, G., and Sakkas, S. (2019). The impact of the Grand Paris Express on the European regions: a RHOMOLO analysis. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 08/2019, JRC117766. See the version published as a book chapter here.

Díaz-Lanchas, J., Florax, R., and Mulder, P. (2019). Does decentralization of governance promote urban diversity? Evidence from Spain. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 07/2019, JRC117397. See the updated version published on Regional Studies.

Mandras, G., Conte, A., and Salotti, S. (2019). The RHOMOLO-IO modelling framework: a flexible Input-Output tool for policy analysis. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 06/2019, JRC117725.

Pérez-Balsalobre, S., Llano-Verduras, C., and Díaz-Lanchas, J. (2019). Measuring subnational economic complexity: An application with Spanish data. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 05/2019, JRC116253.

Persyn, D., Díaz-Lanchas, J., and Barbero, J. (2019). Estimating road transport costs between EU regions. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 04/2019, JRC114409. See the updated version published on Transport Policy.

Lecca, P., Christensen, M., Conte, A., Mandras, G., and Salotti, S. (2019). Upward pressure on wages and the interregional trade spillover effects under demand-side shocks. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 03/2019, JRC116050. See the updated version published on Papers in Regional Science.

Díaz-Lanchas, J., Llano, C., and Zofío, J.L. (2019). A trade hierarchy of cities based on transport cost thresholds. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 02/2019, JRC115750. See the updated version published on Regional Studies.

Thissen, M., Ivanova, O., Mandras, G., and Husby, T. (2019). European NUTS 2 regions: construction of interregional trade-linked Supply and Use tables with consistent transport flows. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 01/2019, JRC115439.

Christensen, M. (2018). Assessing the regional socio-economic impact of the European R&I programme. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 05/2018, JRC114347. See also the Policy Insight JRC115437 and the 2022 Palgrave MacMillan book chapter.

Di Comite, F., Diukanova, O., Mandras, G., and Gómez Prieto, J. (2018). The RHOMOLO economic impact assessment of the R&I and Low-Carbon ERDF Investment programme in Apulia, Italy. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 04/2018, JRC114302. See also the Policy insight JRC115019 and the updated version published on Scienze Regionali - Italian Journal of Regional Science.

Di Comite, F., Lecca, P., Monfort, P., Persyn, D., and Piculescu, V. (2018). The impact of Cohesion Policy 2007-2015 in EU regions: Simulations with the RHOMOLO Interregional Dynamic General Equilibrium model. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 03/2018, JRC114044. See also the Policy Insight JRC114185.

Christensen, M., Conte, A., Di Pietro, F., Lecca, P., Mandras, G., and Salotti, S. (2018). The third pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe: an impact assessment using the RHOMOLO model. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 02/2018, JRC113746. See also the Policy Insight JRC114088 and the updated version published on Scienze Regionali - Italian Journal of Regional Science.

Sakkas, S. (2018). The macroeconomic implications of the European Social Fund: An impact assessment exercise using the RHOMOLO model. JRC Working Paper Series on Territorial Modelling and Analysis no. 01/2018, JRC113322. See also the Policy Insight JRC133228.

Lecca, P., Barbero, J., Christensen, M.A., Conte, A., Di Comite, F., Diaz-Lanchas, J., Diukanova, O., Mandras, G., Persyn, D., and Sakkas, S. (2018). RHOMOLO V3: A spatial modelling framework. JRC Technical Reports JRC111861, EUR 29229 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Diukanova, O. (2018). Multivariate sensitivity analysis with a very large CGE model. JRC Technical Reports JRC111144, EUR29148 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Ciaian, P., and Kancs, D. (2016). Assessing the Social and Macroeconomic Impacts of Labour Market Integration: A Holistic Approach. JRC Technical Reports JRC99645, EUR 27689 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Di Comite, F., Diukanova, O., and Kancs, D. (2016). RHOMOLO Model Manual: A Dynamic Spatial General Equilibrium Model for EU Regions and Sectors. JRC Technical Reports JRC96776, EUR 27351 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Di Comite, F., Kancs, D., and Torfs, W. (2015). Macroeconomic Modelling of R&D and Innovation Policies: An application of RHOMOLO and QUEST. JRC Technical Reports JRC89558, EUR 27084 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Brandsma, A., and Kancs, D. (2015). RHOMOLO: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Modelling Approach to the Evaluation of the EU’s R&D Policies. JRC Technical Reports JRC95421, EUR 27318 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. See the updated version published on Regional Studies.

Di Comite, F., and Kancs, D. (2015). Macro-Economic Models for R&D and Innovation Policies: A Comparison of QUEST, RHOMOLO, GEM-E3 and NEMESIS. JRC Technical Reports JRC94323, EUR 27080 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Thissen, M., Di Comite, F., Kancs, D., and Potters, L. (2014). Modelling inter-regional trade flows data and methodological issues in RHOMOLO. DG REGIO Working papers no. 02/2014.

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